1 John 2:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. ”

1 John 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But whoso keepeth his word - That is, what he has spoken or commanded, The term “word” here will include all that he has made known to us as his will in regard to our conduct. In him verily is...
1 John 2:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(4) But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the (f) love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in (g) him. (4) He that keeps God's commandments loves God indeed: He that loves God, is in...
1 John 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Obedience the Proof of Fellowship. Here John repeats in a positive way the teaching of the previous section. Conduct cannot be, as the false teachers claimed, a matter of indifference, for true kno...
1 John 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

word. App-121. love . App-135. God . App-98. perfected . App-125.
1 John 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5 But whoso keepeth He now defines what a true keeping of God’s law is, even to love God. This passage is, I think, incorrectly explained by those who understand that they please the true Go...
1 John 2:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2434 THE TRUE TEST OF LOVE TO GOD 1 John 2:3-5 . Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a lia...
1 John 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. But whoso keepeth his word - Conscientiously observes his doctrine, the spirit and letter of...
1 John 2:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

His word— The word of Jesus Christ; the same with his commandments in the preceding verse. The love of God is sometimes put for that love which God bears to us; but as the fear of God signifi...
1 John 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. Not merely repeating the proposition, 1 John 2:3 , or asserting the opposite alterna...
1 John 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Advocacy of Christ and the Obligations of Believers 1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. Advocate ] The word thus tra...
1 John 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyses more accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7 , walking in the light. If Christ is, as in 1 John 2:1-2 , the Paraclete and...
1 John 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Keeping His Commandment of Love 1 John 2:1-11 It is clearly possible to be kept from known and presumptuous sin. We shall be tempted, for that is an inevitable experience of life in this world;...
1 John 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Affirming that the purpose of his writing is that we sin not, the writer declared that even if we sin, provision is made by which it may be put away. The tests whereby we may know our relation to lig...
1 John 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. (4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (5) But whoso keepeth his...
1 John 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But whoso keepeth his word ,.... Either the word of the Gospel, and the truths of it, who receives it in love, cordially embraces and retains it, and will by no means part with it, but holds it fast...
1 John 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. Ver. 5. In him verily is the love of God perfected ] St John was a mere compound of swee...
1 John 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hereby we do know that we , truly and savingly, know him As he is the Advocate, the righteous One, the Propitiation; if we keep his commandments Particularly those of faith and love. He that sa...
1 John 2:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive...
1 John 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Believer's Duty. A. D. 80. 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his comm...
1 John 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

His faith worketh by love, Galatians 5:6 ; his love is perfected, and attains its end in obedience, whereof it is the vital principle, 1 John 5:3 1 Thessalonians 14:15 . Such an efficacio...
1 John 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

How Then Can We Know That We Truly Know Christ? ( 1 John 2:3-6 ). Many were claiming that they knew God, that they had special knowledge of Him, that through their own particular religious ordinan...
1 John 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

PROVISION FOR THE SINNING OF BELIEVERS CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES FIRMLY does St. John declare that the Christian should not sin, and must not sin. But he clearly recognises that Christians...
1 John 2:5 - Scofield Reference Notes

perfect ( See Scofield) - ( Matthew 5:48 ).
1 John 2:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 2:3-7 Doing and Knowing. I. St. John assumes that the knowledge of God is as possible, is as real, for human beings as any knowledge they can have of each other. Nay, he goes further than...
1 John 2:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 2:1 . My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. That you may abstain from it, and abhor it, and not indulge in anything that would lead you towards it. 1 John 2...
1 John 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:2 . He is the propitiation for our sin: ιλασμος, a ram, or other victim offered as an atoning sacrifice for sin. On Genesis 15:9 , the rabbins make a distinction between the heifer, the...
1 John 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 John 2:1 , 1 John 2:2 Moreover, walking in the light involves accepting the propitiation wrought through Jesus Christ the Righteous. The connexion with the preceding is c...
1 John 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Keeping Christ's commandments:
1 John 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:30 ; 1 John 2:27 ; 1 John 2:28 ; 1 John 2:3 ; 1 John 2:4 ; 1 John 3:24 ; 1 John 4:12 ; 1 John 4:13 ; 1 John 4:15 ; 1 John 4:16 ; 1 John 4:18 ; 1 John 5:20 ; 2 Corinthians...
1 John 2:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

But whoso keepeth his word — His commandments. Verily in him the love of God — Reconciled to us through Christ. Is perfected — Is perfectly known. Hereby — By our keeping his word. We know that we...

1 John 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 2:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 John 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 John 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 2:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 John 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 John 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 2:5 - Scofield Reference Notes

1 John 2:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 2:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes